world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness Essays - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1873 - 304 pages
...were destined sooner or later to turn the current of her fate. (To be continued.') It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| 1875 - 546 pages
...pleasures that are at His right hand for evermore. GEORGE S. INGRAM. TRUE COURAGE.—It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 486 pages
...always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy...the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is... | |
| Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...the greatest difficulties delightful. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But...the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character.—Emerson. things, but yet a man should know them. They are the... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1878 - 408 pages
...requires a short pause after it; as, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; His easy in solitude to live after our own ; but . . ....the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. In passionate passages, no pause is required after the... | |
| 1879 - 460 pages
...singularity. We seem almost to hear the echo of words like unto these of Emerson : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy...midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance... | |
| WM. T. Harris - 1879 - 462 pages
...singularity. We seem almost to hear the echo of words like uuto these of Emerson: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy...midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."—Lady MW Montague. 6. " Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus." 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."— Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...7. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."—Lady MW Montague. 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."— Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are... | |
| Whispers - 1882 - 78 pages
...easy in the world to live after the world's -~ opinion; it is easy in solitnde to live after one's own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. ELP Trnth, and Truth shall help yon. E what thon seemest, live thy... | |
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